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Brooklyn's High Places, who I yipped about on this website a few weeks ago, have collaborated with friend and L.A.-based artist David Horvitz on a video called "Greeting the Light You". Horvitz wrote us, worried that the video "might be a little strange for some people," and it is, I guess, but only if you find unabashed human intimacy strange. This is how kids say hi! these days: videos stuffed with purple when-will-I-see-you agains (and their requisite soons), blurry images, and gorgeous, meditative psych-pop to be compressed and dragged off ftp servers by lovers on the other side of the country. In the 17th century, Puritan leader John Winthrop wrote his wife to set up times to watch the moon, maybe forgetting that England and Boston don't share the same night. Lots of couples have done this. I think they did this in Aladdin, actually. But they didn't say it using Final Cut Pro. The video features a song from a forthcoming High Places full-length and will be included on a DVD alongside videos from Xiu Xiu, Deerhunter, Japanther, Barr, and others, being released on Post Present Medium, the label run by Dean Spunt, drummer and vocalist for from No Age. (Full disclosure: Mary Pearson from High Places is the sister of a former Pitchfork employee.)